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JONES HIGHLINE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100748 · 1 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1891-05-29 — 108th most senior of the 2208 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: STRAWBERRY DITCH NO 1 (1891-05-20). Immediately behind: GASKILL DITCH (1891-06-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15124.0 | 1891-05-29 | 1906-08-11 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 90 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 316 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 178 AF — 56% of that, and 5th lowest of the 11 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 825 | 10th lowest of 11 · 261% of median | — | 105 | 4.0 |
| 1984 | 605 | 9th lowest of 11 · 192% of median | — | 62 | 5.0 |
| 1987 | — | no recorded volume | 217 | 0 | — |
| 1988 | — | no recorded volume | 381 | 0 | — |
| 1989 | — | no recorded volume | 605 | 0 | — |
| 1990 | — | no recorded volume | 169 | 0 | — |
| 1991 | 950 | 11th lowest of 11 · 301% of median | — | 99 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 375 | 7th lowest of 11 · 119% of median | — | 81 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 316 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | — | 109 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 585 | 8th lowest of 11 · 185% of median | — | 96 | 4.5 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | — | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 123 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 39% of median | — | 32 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 142 | 4th lowest of 11 · 45% of median | — | 34 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 50 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 16% of median | — | 26 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 178 | 5th lowest of 11 · 56% of median | — | 53 | 3.0 |
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